Every month our buyer picks a short handful of pieces from the current collection - the ones we'd take home ourselves. August's set: a speckled stoneware trio, one stone elephant, a candle that smells like late summer, and a planter with a sense of humour.
Picked for the shelf that needs one quiet statement. Each vase is glazed by hand, so the speckle lands differently on every piece - the trio you receive is yours alone. Grouped, they anchor a console; split up, they carry a room's palette from shelf to sill.
The object guests pick up first and ask about later. Cast stone gives it a satisfying heft, and the brass ears catch lamplight in the evening. It sits as happily on a stack of books as it does alone on a mantel.
August in a glass: warm honey, a little floral, nothing sharp. We burn this one in the studio on monsoon afternoons - it makes grey weather feel intentional. The amber vessel rinses out into a very good pencil cup afterwards.
A little absurd, entirely deliberate. The clustered-lemon pot is the one piece in this edit that exists purely to make you smile - and it earns its keep holding sunflowers, a trailing pothos or wooden spoons by the hob.